SY103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Philip Zimbardo, Pew Research Center, Labeling Theory
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Often believed that people are born delinquents. There is no point in trying to help deviant people: goes against restorative measures. Sociological definition: not a personality type, but a project of social circumstances: pattern of violating norms, social stigma how deviants are socially constructed. Offence that breaks the law, has legitimate punishments, and requires authorized intervention. Pew global attitudes survey (2007) most people in society are trustworthy? . Sanctions: positive or negative means to ensure conformity to socially approve standards (often in terms of behaviors) Informal punishment: a mild sanction that is imposed during face-to-face interaction, rather than by the juridical system. Formal punishment: penalized by the juridical system for breaking a law. Outsiders: study in the sociology of deviance. Deviant is not labeled as a deviant and she does not think of herself as a deviant: secondary deviance the second step here the label deviance" is accepted.
